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Champ fleury : au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques, quo[n] dit autreme[n]t lettres antiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain

by: Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533

Publication date: 1529

Topics: Alphabets, Lettering, Proportion (Art), French language, Linguistics, Paleography, Printing, French language -- Pronunciation, French language -- Provincialisms, Linguistics -- French, Paleography -- history

Publisher: A vendre a Paris sus Petit Pont : A Lenseigne du Pot Casse par Maistre Geofroy Tory di Bourges, libraire & autheur du dict liure : Et par Giles Gourmont aussi libraire demourant en la rue Sainct Iaques a Lenseigne des Trois Coronnes

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French; Latin; Ancient Greek; Ancient Greek

Item Size: 249.3M

Signatures: A, B-N, O

Imprint date supplied from colophon, sig. Or

Title within ornamental borders; initials. Two forms of Tory's mark, "le pot cassé", on title page and last leaf, respectively

Leaf lix misprinted lxx

Adams

Library has copy from Theodore Besterman's library. Cf. Besterman, T. Art books, p. 100

Issued 1549 under title: L'art & science de la vraye proportion ...

Colophon: Cy finist ce present liure, auec laddition de treze diuerses faco[n]s de lettres, et la maniere de faire chifres pour bagues dor, ou autrement. Qui fut acheue dimprimer le mercredy xxviij Iour du mois Dapuril, lan mil cincq cens. XXIX pour Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, autheur dudict liure ..

An edition was published in 1549 under title: L'art & science de la vraye proportion

Signatures: A⁸ B-N⁶ O⁸ ; 88 leaves

Title within ornamental borders; initials; coat of arms on page [2], first group. Two forms of Tory's mark, "le pot cassé," on title page and last leaf, respectively

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 362

Includes bibliographical references (list of authors and named persons on leaves [4] recto-[5] recto, first group) and index (leaves [5] recto-[7] verso, first group)

LC copy in contemporary German blind-tooled brown calf, restored

LC copy has ink ownership inscription at top of inside cover: Ex bibliotheca Lud. Martelli Rotomag (?); below it in different ink: 1577; in ink on t.p.: Monasterii Gēmeticensis cong. S. Mauri

[8], LXXX numbered leaves : 25 cm (folio)

Notes

No table of contents.

Addeddate: 2011-05-13 19:20:57

Associated-names: Gourmont, Gilles de; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress); Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)